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Arquitectura Viva 205 América importa

205.6/2018 America Imports

Arquitectura Viva 205 América importa

In Short. With a series of signature chapels the Vatican makes its debut at the Biennale, where, too, Kenneth Frampton receives the Golden Lion; OMA builds an architecture center in Copenhagen; Mecanoo raises a National Center for the Arts in Kaohsiung; Herzog & de Meuron finishes renovating the Badaevskiy Brewery in Moscow; Fujimoto designs a terraced Babel in Paris; Tuñón, Vázquez Consuegra, and Lamela win the bids for the Technical University of Cartagena, the Central Station of Geneva, and the extension of Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam; the firm Moneo Brock completes House Tec 205; and Antonio Bonet comments on the Prado of Moneo ten years after it opened.

Transatlantic Trajectories. For Madrid practices, one way of dealing with the big crisis has been by seeking commissions outside Spain, often in America. The result is taken stock of here through a selection of ten successful cases, classified into three groups. The first encompasses four works in America carried out from Madrid: the Convention Center in Bogota by Herreros, the Archive of Oaxaca by Mendaro, the Domus Aurea in Monterrey by Campo Baeza, and the ICA Museum in Miami by Aranguren + Gallegos. The second comprises four projects: an intervention in West Palm Beach by Ecosistema Urbano, the MALI Museum in Lima by Burgos & Garrido, the auditorium in Arequipa by Langarita Navarro, and the Museum of Memory in Bogota by estudio.entresitio. The third group presents two buildings by Madrid firms based in America: the Brazilian Embassy in Santiago, Chile, by Ipiña +Nieto, and the Magazzino Gallery in New York by Miguel Quismondo.

Interior Abstraction. The architect Josean Ruiz Esquiroz presents the basics of Anna and Eugeni Bach’s unique chromatic intervention on the Barcelona Pavilion, which explores its material quality; and the professor Xavier Monteys writes on the exhibition that Barcelona’s Museu del Disseny and Madrid’s Caixaforum have devoted to the interior spaces and furniture pieces of Adolf Loos.

Literary Landscapes. Luis Fernández-Galiano comments on a recent title that recovers the figure of the great British writer Thomas Hardy as conceptual artist. Also: an inquiry into the work of the young Renzo Piano; a monograph of Tadao Ando; a book on Minoru Yamasaki; and a biography of Michael Graves, the both admired and reviled champion of postmodernity.

Dossier: Green Facades. The growing technical demands for sustain- ability and the no less increasing conscientization surrounding the quality of the spaces that human beings inhabit have made vegetated facades a strategy to take into account more and more. This is the thesis defended by the specialists Consuelo Acha and Esteban Domínguez in an article that starts out with a discussion of environmental guidelines to present the types of green facades most frequently used – either hydroponic or substrate-based – and inquire into vernacular solutions, concluding with an assessment of the pros and cons of designing and building systems of this kind.

To close, an analysis of the negative consequences that halting construction can have on the quality of Spain’s public services.

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